When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.
It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.
I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.
The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.
Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'
Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.
Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.
You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.
The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.
When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I can speak Mandarin fluently.
I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.
Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.
You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.
University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.
Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.
When students come to the community college, they're focused. They know what they want to do, and they have a certain amount of time to do it.
As Governor, expanding access to STEM programs for students has been a top priority of mine.
Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
I'm not saying I'm trying to be the best. I'm gonna be the best. The best me ever. To the point where I can't lose at being me. I can't lose that life.
You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.
Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
I loved playing in the fields back home and racing with my fellow students on the way to school.
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.
My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age.
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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